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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2018
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Geoffrey So, Foster City, CA (US);

Melanie Beck, Mountain View, CA (US);

Jasjeet Dhaliwal, Morgan Hill, CA (US);

Andrew B. Gardner, Roswell, GA (US);

Aleatha Parker-Wood, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

NORTONLIFELOCK INC., Tempe, AZ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01);
Abstract

Identifying and protecting against a computer security threat while preserving privacy of individual client devices using differential privacy for text documents. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving, at the remote server device, text documents from one or more local client devices, generating, at the remote server device, a differential privacy document vector for each of the text documents, identifying, at the remote server device, a computer security threat to a first one of the one or more local client devices using the differential privacy document vectors, and, in response to identifying the computer security threat, protecting against the computer security threat by directing performance, at the first local client device or the remote server device, of a remedial action to protect the first local client device from the computer security threat.


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